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Power blinked off here last night, second time in three days, and only the third time in twenty-odd years.Temperature was above freezing, we had candles and a gas-mantle lantern, put a log into the fireplace, no problem.

Mr. Frank had come over to cut our hair, but the lantern puts out enough light to do that, along with a little heat.

PGE had the power back on within an hour.

But if the temperature had been as low here as it is there? We'd have been bundled up with the dogs in front of the stove insert to sleep.

You can have it, Mushtaq. It looks pretty in the pictures, but for a southern boy, it's just tooo cold.

You're making me homesick. I'm reading this after I drove back from work in hail and freezing rain in southern Ohio. A tree limb snapped under the weight of the ice and fell on my car a few days ago. I'll take cold over this hands down. Some survival training for the silat regulars? (I understand that living outside in those conditions builds character, or something like that.)

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